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Appleton-Century-Crofts

Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. was a division of the Meredith Publishing Company. It is a result of the merger of Appleton-Century Company with F.S. Crofts Co. in 1948. Prior to that The Century Company had merged with D. Appleton & Company in 1933.

Status

Defunct

1948

Appleton & Lange (medical)
Prentice Hall (textbooks)
Hawthorn Books (trade)

United States

The Century Company and its subsequent incarnations published the New Century Dictionary.


Eventually Meredith sold the majority of the company and the Appleton name to Prentice-Hall in 1973.[1] Part of the company became part of Hawthorn Books and New Win Publishing.

1948 , founded in 1933, merged with F. S. Crofts Co., founded in 1924, to form Appleton-Century-Crofts.

Appleton-Century Company

1960 Purchased by [2]

Meredith Publishing Company

1969 Meredith trade books division sold to

Hawthorn Books

1973 Appleton textbook division purchased by ; the medical division retains the Appleton name[3]

Prentice Hall

1974 sold to Charles Walther, and was later renamed New Win Publishing

New Century division

1998 Prentice Hall merged with

Pearson Education

1999 Pearson Education sells successor company Appleton & Lange to [4]

McGraw-Hill

2003 acquired New Win Publishing, which was a division of New Century Publishing

Academic Learning Company, LLC

Century vagabond books of travel

Duell, Sloan and Pearce

New Century Dictionary. (1963). ii. New York:Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.

at the Lilly Library, Indiana University

Appleton-Century mss., 1846–1962